Altered neural response of the appetitive emotional system in cocaine addiction: An fMRI Study

Addiction Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 504-516

  Asensio, Samuel ^a   Romero, Maria J ^a   Palau, Carmina ^b   Sanchez, Amparo ^b   Senabre, Isabel ^a   Morales, Julia L ^a   Carcelen, Raquel ^a   Romero, Francisco J ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CEU CARDENAL HERRERA   (Spain)

^b Unidad de Conductas Adictivas   (Spain)

Author keywords

Addiction; emotion; fMRI; IAPS; prefrontal cortex; striatum

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; APPETITE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; EMOTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; MOOD CHANGE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THALAMUS; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; AROUSAL; BASAL GANGLIA; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COCAINE; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PLEASURE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REFERENCE VALUES; THALAMUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649485956     PISSN: 13556215     EISSN: 13691600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1369-1600.2010.00230.x     Document Type: Article

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